Problem with Catalyst 10.5 + Kernel 2.6.34

[nupplaPhil]

Hi guys,

It's the first time that I've build a custom kernel.

The installation went fine, but in the end, I'm trying to install the current Catalyst Driver for my HD 5770

The steps I did:
- downloading catalyst 10.5 from official site
- extracting
- patching with the two patches from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29111
- sh ati-install.sh 10.5 --install
- automatic install

well .. First Time, I got the following problem:

The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h
""
does not match current version:
"2.6.17"

After some time googleing I found the solution --> #define UTS_RELEAS "2.6.34"

And now I'm stuck at the next problem

:/lib/modules/fglrx# ./make_install.sh
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel modules
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko): Invalid module format
failed.

modprobe fglrx shows me the same problem

modinfo fglrx shows the following lines:

filename: /lib/modules/2.6.34/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko
license: Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY
description: ATI Fire GL
author: Fire GL - ATI Research GmbH, Germany
alias: pci:v00001002d000095CFsv*sd*bc*sc*i* [...] <-- a lot of different "alias" lines
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.34 SMP mod_unload
parm: firegl:charp

Can somebody help me ? ..

I also tried the installer http://kanotix.com/files/install-fglrx-debian.sh

But all the time, he downloaded the "drms" stuff from the kanotix site and after it, he wants to download the linux-header 2.6.22-2 with apt

So I gave up and hope to get some more tips from you

thanks a lot

greets,
Phil

[Kano]

My script is correct just you installed 2.6.34 the completely wrong (manual) way. When you use Debian/Ubuntu use at least kernel-package -> make-kpkg but NEVER without a deb package.

[nupplaPhil]

mhm .. ok thx 4 info ..

i installed the kernel in two steps

make bzImage modules modules_install install ARCH=x86_64
make header_install

thought it's enough

[Jimbo]

I used to compile my own kernels months ago, but now i always use the distro kernels. Maybe it is not the best way but this is what i was using.

1) download the kernel source , uncompress it and go to the directory
2) su
3) chmod -R a-s $PWD
4) CONCURRENCY_LEVEL="your number of cores" make-kpkg --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers --initrd binary
5) cd..
6) dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.2*.deb linux-headers-2.6.2*.deb
7) update-initramfs -u

[nupplaPhil]

thx jimbo for the manual
thx kano for the script and help

With your help, I solved the prob and the fglrx mod is running

But there is a strange behavior left:

Since I installed the fglrx driver, after every boot, there is a "kernel oops" message telling me that there is a kernel failure ..

I searched in the syslog and found some call trace after loading fglrx:

May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.223225] [fglrx] IRQ 16 Enabled
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272109] caller is kas_spin_lock+0x15/0xbe [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272115] Pid: 2698, comm: Xorg Tainted: P 2.6.34-custom #1
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272118] Call Trace:
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272127] [<ffffffff81257ba5>] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0xb9/0xd0
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272168] [<ffffffffa00fa89a>] ? kas_spin_lock+0x15/0xbe [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272209] [<ffffffffa00fac5e>] ? KAS_InterlockedList_RemoveAtHead+0x58/0x15c [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272217] [<ffffffff810c3d7c>] ? __inc_zone_state+0x16/0x7d
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272271] [<ffffffffa011319d>] ? MCIL_InterlockedList+0x10d/0x2a0 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272342] [<ffffffffa01bbbe0>] ? FIFO_Queue_RemoveFromHead+0x40/0x60 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272408] [<ffffffffa01c7371>] ? AllocateCallbackEntry+0x21/0x50 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272479] [<ffffffffa01bcad7>] ? RegisterIRQClient+0xb7/0x200 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272548] [<ffffffffa01bf1c5>] ? IsR6XXDerivatives+0x55/0x70 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272611] [<ffffffffa01c971e>] ? Is_IRQSource_Valid+0x8e/0xb0 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272684] [<ffffffffa01ba00e>] ? IRQMGR_Access+0xee/0x190 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272745] [<ffffffffa012c2d0>] ? fireglAsyncioIntHandler+0x0/0x70 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272807] [<ffffffffa012c105>] ? fireglAsyncioIntEnableMsgHandler+0x105/0x1e0 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.272946] [<ffffffff810c9114>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x4b7/0x91b
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273007] [<ffffffffa012c2d0>] ? fireglAsyncioIntHandler+0x0/0x70 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273094] [<ffffffffa015c32b>] ? getNextMessage+0xab/0x140 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273178] [<ffffffffa015c224>] ? asyncIOHandler+0x74/0xd0 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273243] [<ffffffffa012b428>] ? firegl_asyncio_write+0x198/0x260 [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273290] [<ffffffffa00fe16c>] ? ip_firegl_write+0x4b/0x7d [fglrx]
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273300] [<ffffffff810e8d74>] ? vfs_write+0xad/0x169
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273309] [<ffffffff810e8eec>] ? sys_write+0x45/0x6e
May 29 15:12:04 WorkDebian kernel: [ 15.273319] [<ffffffff81009a82>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Is this a bug or is this a pebkac (Problem exists between keyboard and chair) ?

greetz